Technology in Middle School Classrooms

Technology in Middle School Classrooms

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Over the past few years there has been a huge debate on technology helping vs. hurting in the classroom. I decided to experience for myself how it is used and if it is making learning easier. Recently, I interviewed a school teach who teaches sixth grade at a public middle school in Santa Clarita. She had been teaching for over 10 years for the district including the implementation of technology from conception. She explained that over the first five years of teaching she focused very little on technology because it was not required. The only technology her students used was attending the computer lab twice a month. Unfortunately, while her students were in the computer lab computer games were the fascination of the majority of students. She made it very clear that was the case then but not presently due to the state of California adopting the Common Core Standards. Currently, California is making sure that technology is getting integrated in the classroom and in major ways. Primarily, students now use laptop computers in the classroom and playing those computer games are not the most intriguing aspect of time spent in the lab. Observing these students during class would be instrumental in concluding if computers were really being used for school work or were they being used as a way to keep to students distracted from their learning environment. I sat in the back of the class to observe the students in…

A rising topic among school districts across the nation is the implementation of technology into the classroom. Originally I wanted to write a paper on how schools should focus on managing the sizes of their classrooms, but that is something very difficult for an administrator to control. Technology has become increasingly more utilized in schools around America. Technology is important because it allows the teacher to find multiple ways to teach an assignment and the students learn in a hands on…

I went to Middle School in Knob Noster Missouri for half of Middle School, then moved in the middle of 6th grade. I started Middle School when I was 10, in 5th grade. It was unusual to start Middle School in 5th grade, but at the end of 4th grade, the school education board said that there wasn’t enough room in our elementary school, so they moved the 5th grade to the Middle School. We were the first 5th grade class to experience Middle School in the whole community. I felt older and cooler than…

Jeremy Spencer
RSCH 9800
Dissertation Critique #1
Oravetz, C.L. (2011). Assessing middle school student participation in online vs. face-to-face
environments. (Education Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved from
http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=education_theses
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to investigate if technology increases the level of
participation in middle school students thus leading to learning. Social constructivist
theory guides the foundation…

Middle school and high school were very different for me. Both schools lack diversity and consisted of people just like me, but in middle school everyone’s identity were practically the same. I attended Catholic school until high school and had all white classes until then too. Throughout middle school I was a rather mischievous student who did not place academics too highly on my list of priorities, so I was often making the teacher’s job much harder than it needed to be. If not for how involved…

integrate technology into school curriculum. Culp, Honey and Mandinach (2005) reported despite several educational reports and other governmental reports of the large investments in instructional technology resources, computers, high speed internet access and other forms of technology within the country’s schools are yet to be effectively integrated into instruction in most our nation’s K-12 classrooms.
The true meaning for technology integration means to integrate different forms of technologies and…

Recently the school board in the Huntsville Independent School District decided that it would be a great idea to jump into the twenty-first century and add technology into the classrooms. The members of the school board have read articles like “Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many”, which tell why it would be a great idea to add technology into the classroom as well as articles like “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores”, which talks about all of the new ways to…

As you enter freshmen year you will immediately notice the differences between high school and middle school. Change will be inevitable. With a new building to explore, new faces in the halls, and a new schedule to memorize nothing will be the same. Most importantly, the biggest change you will notice will be the change within yourself. Transitioning from middle school to high school means growing, it means taking risks and stepping outside of your comfort zone. How you change will depend on your…

“A middle school is a school organization containing grades six to eight that, first provides developmentally appropriate and responsive curricular, instructional, organizational, guidance, and overall educational experiences; and second, places major emphasis on 10-15 year olds’ developmental and instructional needs” (Teaching in the Middle School, 6). The researcher has a great point for the fact that a middle school should be focus on the needs of diverse young adolescents. All young adolescents…

The junior high school and middle school is basically the same thing. Today we still have junior high schools but the mostly named that way because of the historically context. Looking at my notes taken from this year, middle schools span from 6 th to 8 th grade, the schedule is flexible and block depending on the class. Teachers have interdisciplinary teams and they work together as a grade level instead of working on common classes they teach. Lastly in the middle school, everyone is a team…

After teaching mathematics in a middle school classroom, I recognized my likes and dislikes about teaching math. My biggest dislike about teaching mathematics is the fact that many students have a negative attitude about mathematics and have become discouraged throughout their elementary years. Once a student believes they are not capable of doing math, it is hard to change their belief. Another dislike about teaching mathematics is that during this change to a more problem solving and student-centered…